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Career Lessons from [Virtual] Adult Summer Camp
Recently I got to attend Heather Hubbard’s Summer Camp, a one-of-a-kind, three day virtual event that fulfilled Heather’s promise for attendees to leave “inspired, replenished, and refreshed.” (I was honored to also get to lead a workshop on career resiliency and career planning when circumstances are out of your control.) The event included several career lessons worth repeating, and these four may be especially helpful as you look forward to the rest of 2020.
ApochroMinute 28: Paper Bag
We recently heard some great advice from Heather Hubbard on video meetings. Check out this week’s ApochroMinute to hear her tip. And if you enjoyed this week’s video, please share it!
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What if 2020 is a cocoon? Career lessons from butterflies.
“Are you sure she’s ready?”
“Open the lid, Amy.”
“But what if she’s not ready?”
“She’s ready. Open. The. Lid.”
A few months ago, I found myself having this exchange at a butterfly park. As family members stood waiting, the tour guide kept nudging me to open the lid of what appeared to be a takeout soup container. Inside the container, a rare butterfly had emerged from the cocoon she had made on the underside of the lid. As she sat there, I kept wondering – what if she isn’t ready? And what I would see if I had a microscope? To my untrained and unenhanced eyes, this butterfly looked less like a runner at starting blocks, ready to launch, and more like a creature clutching the remnants of her old life.
ApochroMinute 27: The 2020 Cocoon
What do Monarch butterflies and cocoons have to do with your career? Check out this week’s ApochroMinute to find out.
2020 Has Really Been Something...Embrace Support
*OK, so maybe I’ve never had a direct conversation with TV character Leslie Knope of “Parks and Recreation." Or with Amy Poehler. But I’m pretty sure if I could, they’d both be in favor of masterminds. And, as we know, waffles.
ApochroMinute 26: 2020 2.0
In this week’s ApochroMinute Keith discusses the successes of our attorney mastermind clients and a tool for attorneys to be intentional about the remainder of 2020.
Focus on Career: Networking
July is a great time to jump start your job search, so throughout the month, we’re focusing on different elements of the process.
ApochroMinute 25: Feedback Mindset
In this week’s ApochroMinute: “Feedback Mindset,” Amy discusses the mindset you should adopt toward feedback as mid-year reviews begin.
ApochroMinute 24: Career Resiliency
In this week’s ApochroMinute: “Career Resiliency,” and leaning into your job search in the summer months.
Improving Emotional Intelligence in an Era of Masks
You’ve probably heard statistics that just 7% of what we retain from a conversation is based on words, 38% on tone of voice, and 55% on body language. Recently I’ve been thinking about emotional intelligence or “EQ” when we’re all behind (literal) masks. When you can’t see a colleague’s full facial expressions, or can only see a Starbucks barista’s eyes, how accurately are you able to interpret and understand how they’re feeling?
ApochroMinute 23: References
In this week’s ApochroMinute: “References available upon request,” and other common reference mistakes. (And how to avoid them.) Plus why your career may need a bootcamp.
ApochroMinute 22: Career Resiliency
There are steps you can take right now to reduce the likelihood of being laid off or furloughed, and to lessen the blow if you are. This week’s ApochroMinute explains.
To join us this Thursday at noon central for Responding to the Covid Economy: Creating Career Resiliency, REGISTER HERE.
Are you ready for a challenge?
We don’t normally talk about our offerings on the blog, but we’ve had so many questions about the Career Rebound Challenge starting on Monday that we wanted to use this week’s post to answer those questions.
ApochroMinute 21: Challenge
Wondering what next week’s free Career Rebound Challenge is, and whether you should sign up? This week’s ApochroMinute has the answers.
A message from Apochromatik
Below is a modified version of the email that went out to our list yesterday. In it, we share some of our thinking about one small thing we’re doing to ensure our own promotions don’t take up space this week that should be occupied by other voices. Please know this isn’t the polished, thoughtful statement we’d like to make, but we’ve been focused on helping our clients during this time rather than on making perfect statements, and on saying something today rather than something better down the road. Because we know that waiting to speak hasn’t helped.
ApochroMinute 20: Challenge
The ApochroMinute is normally, well…a minute.
With all that is going on between citizens marching for equality and a global pandemic, we felt it appropriate to expand the ApochroMinute to 2 minutes today.
We know that as a small business, we can’t fix all of the inequalities in America. But we also know that as a small business that helps professionals build their careers, we have skills and tools that we can share. Please watch today’s ApochroMinute[s].
Shift Your Mindset
I talked about my favorite word (“yet”) in Tuesday’s ApochroMinute and was blown away by the response. (If you missed this week’s video, you can check it out here.)
People who have overcome enormous physical, mental, financial, and other challenges let me know that they appreciated my comments, that they’d seen for themselves what a different “yet” can make, or just that they were going to give it a try. First of all, thank you. In these days when all of our interactions are online, a message means even more.
ApochroMinute 19: Yet
In this week’s ApochroMinute, Amy shares her favorite word, and how it can help you shift from feeling inadequate or intimidated to motivated and up for a challenge.
Be sure to come back for Thursday’s blog post, where we’ll talk about why a growth mindset is critical for your career, especially in this economy.
Future In Focus: Transitioning
One of our Future in Focus 2020 Mastermind members, Nashville lawyer Chelsea Ashworth, is making a transition to writing and editing.
She was a high school senior on September 11, 2001, and has written an essay with advice for today’s high school seniors.
